Ireland - Homework - PTSI D
On 28/03/2024 from 14:00 at 16:00
1/ Identifying as the role you have been given, prepare the arguments for the following debate:
For (F) or against (A) the Troubles Legacy Bill?
GROUPS: Think about the specific arguments that each role would resort to to defend their side
Gp 1: De AMOROSO à DEVYNCK > A member of Sinn Féin (A)
Gp 2: De DUBRESSON à HABIB > A member of the Northern Ireland Veterans Movement (F)
Gp 3: De JEYAKKUMAR à NADEAU > A member of the SEFF (Southern Eastern Fermanagh Foundation) (A)
Gp 4: De NGO à la fin > A member of the British Government (F)
2/ Is Ireland heading to reunification?
Watch the video and answer the questions:
Introduction:
1°Why is the question of Irish reunification brought to the forth?
Background and context:
2° What do the terms Republicans, Nationalists, Unionists and Loyalists refer to?
3° Summarize how we got where we are today.
Referendum process:
4° How could Irish reunification be achieved?
5° When and how would these referendums come about?
6° What is unclear about this process? What does the data say?
7° How are demographics and attitudes shifting in Northern Ireland?
8° What does the win of Sinn Féin in 2022 at the Northern Ireland election and at the local elections of 2023 reveal? What could it change?
9° What is currently happening with crossborder infrastructures?
10° What is said about the Alliance party?
11° What do current polls about hypothetical reunification reveal? And what are the current trends?
12° What are the questions campaigners on both sides increasingly rely on apart from identity?